How do you trust anyone you meet online in a world where AI has become so advanced that it generates with increasingly high fidelity every aspect of how modern humans have evolved to tell what is real online (written word, voice, images & video)?

The last frontiers of trust online are blockchain authenticated provenance and social proof; seeing someone you trust trusting someone else makes you more likely to trust that person too.

This collection builds on the innovation of "patron editions" pioneered by the networked art team to dramatize this very concept onchain.

Here's how it works:

The network is made up of two layers:

1/1 holders - Validators [10 votes per token]
Patron edition holders - Agents [1 vote per token]

Patron editions cost $1 to mint and are only available during the 24-hour window of each live auction. One per wallet.

When an auction concludes, masked portraits of new patrons are created & added to a pool of portraits awaiting verification by the network.

The winner of this auction selects from this pool & their selection is presented to the network for deliberation & voting.

When the network reaches a consensus, the selected masked portrait is then verified, minted & listed for auction and this cycle repeats until the 100th masked portrait is minted.

Through this process, the network actively shapes how the body of work evolves over time.

The final artwork is the network making itself using the blockchain and the novelty of patron editions as its medium.